Anyone out there interested in a 'HTTP authentication' library? Possibly only for NTLM, but I would imagine that it could do Digest and GSS-Negotiate too as they're not that simple to implement (at least it takes a lot of reading and testing).

A few weeks ago I added Digest authentication support to libcurl, Daniel Kouril added GSS-Negotiate authentication and then I challanged the programmer gods and added NTLM authentication too.

Now, there's a few other HTTP-oriented open source tools out there that I believe also would like to have these authentication methods supported. Why not gather a crowd and see if we can work up an API and then we could move the now written code to use that, and I could make the auth stuff available for others as well... (the libcurl source code is MIT licensed and thus not restricted to GPL, non-GPL, BSD or non-BSD projects)

It would also make the code better, as we all would strive on improving this.

This is supposedly some kind of an open source/free software community. Yet 75% of the members claim to be involved in no projects at all, with another 10% involved in only one project...

I do get mildly annoyed by the fact that with the recent Redhat betas of 8.1 or 9 or whatever they'll end up calling it, curl fails to build with OpenSSL. Again, Redhat steps forward and causes havok.

This is because they've decided that we should all use 'pkg-config --cflags openssl' to figure out that we need the include path setup to point out the kereberos headers in order to be able to successfully include <openssl/ssl.h>...

Today my 'postmaster' got mail from "spamcop.net". He was utterly confused and mailed me and asked why he got this weird mail...

It turned out that spamcop.net is a blatantly stupid complain-to-the-spammers system, which tracks down the origins of URLs in "spams" and mails the postmasters of the supposedly offending spammer sites.

Now, the "spam" in this case was a mail in which someone described his travel by train in Peru, and there he added a URL to my page with a few pictures from the city of Aguas Calientes near Machu Picchu: